Bay Briefing: Trump says feds can solve our homelessness problem

Jamie Dong stands outside the makeshift structure she lives in along San Leandro Avenue on Friday, September 6, 2019 in Oakland, CA. Oakland Public Works Department is requiring structures in a homeless encampment along San Leandro Avenue to be dissembled and removed by September 11, 2019 when the encampment will be temporarily closed for a full cleaning.

Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, Sept. 11, and three jurors tell the story of what happened during Ghost Ship deliberations, San Francisco marks a new record in the fight against HIV and the Trump administration says it’ll consider cracking down on California homelessness. Here’s what you need to know to start your day.

On Tuesday, Trump administration officials visited Los Angeles “to learn more about the city’s response to the homelessness crisis,” according to a statement from Mayor Eric Garcetti.

Sources told The Chronicle that the federal visitors to Los Angeles mentioned the possibilities of building new facilities and renovating existing ones, and that the federal government might play a large role in overseeing health care and housing.

‘Where do they go?’ The impending closure of two large homeless encampments this week, in Oakland and Berkeley, has sparked debate over how the cities and other government agencies decide which homeless settlements to clear and when.

Maury Mossman, the foreman of the Ghost Ship jury, stands for an anonymous portrait in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019.

Maury Mossman, the foreman of the Ghost Ship jury, stands for an...

Maury Mossman walked into the Ghost Ship jury room Aug. 19 with a piece of paper that would upend nine days of deliberations.

Tensions in the trial over the deadly Oakland warehouse fire were already high, and some jurors were digging in their heels when Mossman witnessed what he believed were two instances of juror misconduct. He came to a decision over the weekend: He’d share the allegations if the jury foreperson did not report it themselves.

After the four-month criminal trial of Derick Almena and co-defendant Max Harris came to a dramatic finale last week, three jurors interviewed by The Chronicle provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the emotional deliberations that ultimately landed at least two jurors in contempt proceedings and could lead to another months-long criminal trial for Almena.

The good news: The number of new HIV diagnoses in San Francisco has dropped to a record low — below 200 in 2018 — but public health experts aren’t exactly celebrating. Disparities based on race and gender remain, and the share of homeless people contracting the virus is rising.

A bid to put California on year-round daylight-saving time has run out of time — at least this year.

Despite growing momentum to adopt permanent daylight-saving time in the state, Assemblyman Kansen Chu, D-San Jose, said he would not push in the final days of the legislative session to pass AB7, which would have moved the state to daylight-saving time all year instead of from March to November.

Feng Shui practitioner Deborah Gee takes a tour of the new Chase Center arena with Warriors President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts in San Francisco, Calif., on Tuesday, August 13, 2019. Gee has evaluated several new sports venues in the Bay Area for San Francisco columnist Scott Ostler in the past, and gave her observations of the Warriors new home.